Explore & Win
Spot the National Team Footballs
To celebrate the launch of our new TOPTICA website, we’ve hidden 48 national team footballs across our pages. Whether you're a laser expert, a curious student, or simply passionate about photonics or football, this challenge is for you.
Explore our website to find one of the 48 hidden national team footballs, which are inspired by national team colors. See for example on the right.
Spot one and win a football. Some are right under your nose, others are cleverly hidden.
But be quick: Each National team football can only be claimed once, and each participant can win only one prize.Every participant is automatically entered into the drawing for the grand prize: a TOPTICA football table.
We are hiding the first footballs on June 11th, 2026. The game will end once all the balls have been found, or no later than the grand prize drawing on July 20th, 2026.
Prizes
Win 1 of 48 TOPTICA Footballs
Featuring a sleek modern design, this football is ideal for casual games, office tournaments, or display. A fun and memorable prize for laser enthusiasts and football fans alike.
Find and claim a national team football on the TOPTICA website first and you will be a winner.
Grand Prize
One TOPTICA Football Table
Host your own tournament with the TOPTICA Football Table. Designed with TOPTICA-inspired photonics details and premium TOPTICA-branding, this one-of-a-kind table transforms any office, or breakout area into a high-energy playground for innovation and teamwork. Perfect for friendly matches between colleagues, customers, and partners.
All contest participants are automatically entered into a raffle to win the exclusive TOPTICA Football Table.
The winner will be announced on July 20 (the day after the World Cup final) on the TOPTICA website and on social media.
List of Finds
The list of found national team footballs can be seen here. We will announce the find promptly and wait for 4 more days to publish the exact location (to keep the fun up for other players who want to enter the raffle). By participating, winners agree that their chosen name or alias may be published.
| Ball | Country | Where? | When? | Who? | TOPTICA's comment 😊 |
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Switzerland | Hiding place | Do 11.06.2026 02:35 |
Shiwei Yang China |
10⁻¹⁵-level precision of an optical ion clock outshines even the finest Swiss watch — challenge accepted! |
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Bosnia and Herzegovina | Hiding place | Do 11.06.2026 07:25 |
Rosalie Schessl Germany |
A flag with infinitely many stars, by definition — where else would we hide it? |
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Cape Verde | Hiding place | Do 11.06.2026 09:25 |
Raouf Ayadi Germany |
Not every ball is this easy to spot. |
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Brazil | Hiding place | Do 11.06.2026 10:33 |
Justas Baltrukonis Lithuania |
Carnival costumes and party vibes — the perfect spot for Brazil. |
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Spain | Hiding place | Do 11.06.2026 11:56 |
Syed Ali Hussain Germany |
The Canary Islands (Spain) were the perfect fit for our guide star lasers. |
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Turkey | Hiding place | Do 11.06.2026 12:59 |
Mika Zalewski United Kingdom |
Our "All Wavelengths" group photo was the perfect hiding spot for any ball. |
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Australia | Hiding place | Do 11.06.2026 13:27 |
Felix Lang Germany |
Naturally, Ken the Guru (nice pun, Marc-Uwe Kling!) had something stashed in his bag... |
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Curaçao | Hiding place | Do 11.06.2026 13:28 |
Stefan Zerobin Austria |
Curaçao's blue flag is a vexillologist's favorite — its two stars represent the country's two islands. Good luck in the tournament! |
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Uruguay | Hiding place | Do 11.06.2026 13:45 |
Günther Hannesschläger Austria |
We couldn't fool you 😊 |
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France | Hiding place | Do 11.06.2026 14:17 |
Sophie Decoppet United Kingdom |
Plenty of spots to hide the French ball on our site — but we left a few for other French-speaking countries. |
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Morocco | Hiding place | Do 11.06.2026 14:31 |
Gabriel Machuca United Kingdom |
A red ball linked by pentagram lines — an easy pick. |
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Sweden | Hiding place | Do 11.06.2026 14:46 |
Théodore Barbier United Kingdom |
Erbium, Ytterbium, Thulium, Holmium, Cerium — where would photonics be without elements discovered in Sweden? Naturally, the flag had to be grounded. |
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Mexico | Hiding place | Do 11.06.2026 15:10 |
The Netherlands |
A bit of a stretch, but those power graphs reminded us of the Maya pyramids. |
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Qatar | Hiding place | Do 11.06.2026 15:29 |
Kyle Stroessenreuther United States |
As natural as natural gas — Qatar's vast methane reserves made the perfect mix. |
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Ghana | Hiding place | Do 11.06.2026 15:40 |
Molly Smith United Kingdom |
A flag that looks like a rainbow focus spot — a natural fit for our iBeam series. |
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Ivory Coast | Hiding place | Do 11.06.2026 15:42 |
Jon Gallagher United States |
Atoms, solids, gases, dyes — only ivory was missing from this poster. |
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Japan | Hiding place | Do 11.06.2026 15:56 |
Liam Jeanette United States |
This ball looks almost like our logo — couldn't resist. Go Samurai Blue! |
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Netherlands | Hiding place | Do 11.06.2026 16:09 |
Eddy Torres United States |
What country has a closer bond with water? Keep your head above water — Oranje boven!
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Ecuador | Hiding place | Do 11.06.2026 16:27 |
Eleonora Lippi Germany |
Ecuador sits right on the equator — zero degrees latitude, just like our CERO comb's zero phase offset 😊 |
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Saudi Arabia | Hiding place | Do 11.06.2026 16:32 |
June Vanlerberghe United States |
Green fluorophores under the microscope make for perfect hiding places. |
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South Korea | Hiding place | Do 11.06.2026 07:07 |
Laura Carmine Germany |
We especially liked the Taeguk stripes on Korea's flag — they give the ball some vibrant energy. |
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England | Hiding place | Do 11.06.2026 16:37 |
Thomas Kim United States |
Easy find — and always a tough opponent for Germany (unless it comes down to penalties 😊). |
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Colombia | Hiding place | Do 11.06.2026 17:05 |
Thomas Hinde United Kingdom |
If Botero painted robots, they might look like this. |
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Haiti | Hiding place | Do 11.06.2026 17:42 |
Aaron Leu United Kingdom |
Turning red light into blue — a fitting match for our SHG systems. |
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Senegal | Hiding place | Do 11.06.2026 17:48 |
Laird Egan United States |
A French-speaking country — why not hide two famous French names? |
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South Africa | Hiding place | Do 11.06.2026 17:59 |
Grigorii Vydrevich Germany |
A flag that mirrors our photonics favorite: every wavelength in one PIC 😊 |
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Uzbekistan | Hiding place | Do 11.06.2026 22:10 |
Anish Thomas Germany |
A flag containing a Bose-Einstein condensate lattice — well played, Quzbekistan! |
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Tunisia | Hiding place | Fr 12.06.2026 04:11 |
Sasha Bonkowsky United States |
Tunisia's Atlas Mountain roads call for an SUV — though at TOPTICA, "SUV" usually means something else, and we'd take the bike anyway. |
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United States | Hiding place | Fr 12.06.2026 05:19 |
Keqin Yan United States |
Fifty laser-spot stars from a holographic DOE plus a uniform interference pattern — the 1776 founders must've been laser physicists. |
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DR Congo | Hiding place | Fr 12.06.2026 05:50 |
Swapnil Patel United States |
Our Terahertz systems reveal the invisible — did they help you spot this ball? Just don't use them for poker. |
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Austria | Hiding place | Fr 12.06.2026 15:59 |
Julia Miklas United Kingdom |
Our VP Sales Manfred is well known for hailing from Austria — and everyone at TOPTICA knows to take the day off after an Austrian win over Germany. |
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Scotland | Hiding place | Fr 12.06.2026 17:07 |
Yoav Kargon United States |
Yes — Nick, our head of TOPTICA France, is from Scotland (though you'd barely guess it from his accent). |
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Jordan | Hiding place | Fr 12.06.2026 17:29 |
Tim Wohlers-Reichel United Kingdom |
What else does Jordan's flag bring to mind but a tapered amplifier diode and an emitted photon? |
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Norway | Hiding place | Sa 13.06.2026 18:43 |
Nathan Taylor United States |
Since Iceland did not qualify, Norway's our coolest contender (and Haaland's pretty cool too). |
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Belgium | Hiding place | Sa 13.06.2026 18:59 |
Lale Einhorn Germany |
Belgium's a hotspot for PIC, quantum, and semiconductors — but can they finally land their first title? |
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Iraq | Hiding place | So 14.06.2026 10:08 |
Sean Brudney Switzerland |
T-Rack and Iraq — close in sound, worlds apart in spelling. |
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Argentina | Hiding place | So 14.06.2026 14:02 |
Dominik Drewer Germany |
Argentina's "Sun of May" inspired our sunlit space shot. |
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Czech Republic | Hiding place |
So 14.06.2026 14:44
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Jaspal Singh France |
Couldn't resist tucking the Czech flag into our Check Quality section (sorry for the cheap pun). |
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Panama | Hiding place | 2026-06-14 20:33 |
Wesley Brand United States |
Probably the toughest hiding spot yet: "ocean world missions." |
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New Zealand | Hiding place | 2026-06-15 02:14 |
Ziqing Pang Canada |
For ages, New Zealand was terra incognita — unknown and nearly invisible to the world. Sounds like a job for our terahertz expert Anselm, who happens to be a huge fan of the country... |
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Portugal | Hiding Place | 2026-06-15 11:11 |
Jakob Helms Switzerland |
No direct laser diodes exist between green and red — no problem for our FDDL diodes, which emit right in that yellow-green gap. |
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Paraguay | Hiding place | 2026-06-15 21:58 |
Ignacio Pérez Spain |
Did you know Paraguay reached the quarterfinals in 2010? AOMazing! Fingers crossed for an encore in 2026. |
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Egypt | Hiding place | 2026-06-15 23:18 |
Carmen Martin Spain |
Nile Blue is a popular fluorescent dye for biological imaging, lipid staining, and fluorescence microscopy. Its peak absorption sits at 640 nm, though 525 nm might still coax out some fluorescence. If Egypt takes the title, we'll put that to the test in our bio-laser lab. |
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Canada | Hiding place | 2026-06-18 08:28 |
Kai Shinbrough United Kingdom |
Red and white. Unfortunately not possible with the dual color option for our femtosecond fiber lasers, but for a football team, this is a highly recommended set of colors. |
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Terms & Conditions
Organizer
TOPTICA Photonics SE, Germany
How it works
- Find one of up to 48 hidden national team footballs on www.toptica.com
- Send an email to football@toptica.com with the exact location (URL and screenshot) and your name, and shipping address. Please avoid including personal or sensitive information in screenshots.
- The first valid submission per hidden football wins a TOPTICA Football (max. 1 football per person).
- Employees are excluded from the public prize drawings.
Prizes
- 48 TOPTICA Footballs, one for each first found football
- 1 TOPTICA Football Table, raffled among all participants
Shipping
Prizes are shipped from Germany. Winners are responsible for the import. Winners outside of the EU may request an alternative prize of comparable value.
Winner selection
TOPTICA’s email server timestamp is binding for winner determination.
The football table winner is selected by random draw among all eligible participants on July 20th.
Data & legal
Participants must be at least 18 years old or have parental consent.
By participating, winners agree that their chosen name or alias may be published.
Personal data is processed solely for contest administration in accordance with GDPR.
Contact
football@toptica.com
Disclaimer: This promotion is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by FIFA or any official tournament organizer.
